04 September 2015

Dinosaurs in Alaska

Fifty years ago, paleontologists would have told you that no dinosaurs were known to have lived in Alaska. But it's been discovery after discovery for the past three decades -- in Southeast, Denali, the Talkeetna Mountains, on the Alaska Peninsula and the lower Yukon.

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Agreed. Most folks tend to think "but it's too cold in Alaska for (fill in the name of a critter)". Not so. There are fossilized palm trees in the tidal flats along the Cook Inlet, so it was provably much, much warmer in some parts of the very long past.

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